[Development] Updating third-parties

[Axel Waggershauser]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> qtbase:
>         ANGLE (*)

If I followed this thread sufficiently, it seems as if no one has yet
made a statement about the update of ANGLE. I just remembered that a
couple of weeks ago I came across this warning message when running
some simple fragment shader of mine:

    warning X3206: implicit truncation of vector type

Some googeling revealed that others have seen the same:

    http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23563

Some more revealed that it is actually an ANGLE bug that has been
fixed since last November:

    http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/source/detail?r=1557

According to http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/blobs/stable/src/3rdparty/angle/src/common/version.h,
the currently shipped version in qt is 1318, while the latest upstream
version of their trunk is 2040:
http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/source/list.

I'd suggest to upgrade ANGLE to something after the mentioned fix, but
since I don't see any 'proper' released upstream version other than a
very old 'v1.0' branch, I would not know which version would be suited
best. How has the currently used version been chosen at the time?

 - Axel

P.S. this is not necessarily an offer to do the upgrade myself (I
don't even have enough space to build qt on my windows partition right
now) but I might be convinced to do so if no one else feels
'responsible' for ANGLE.